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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

I didn’t go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don’t need no more schoolin’. You need to get out in the water and swim.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.